Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current writer-in-residence
Leta Semadeni, of her poems and from her debut novel
Tamangur, followed by a conversation with the acclaimed translator
Tess Lewis about Leta Semadeni's bilingualism and storytelling in German and Rhaeto-Romanic.
Leta Semadeni was born in 1944 in Scuol in Switzerland, and studied Languages at the University of Zurich. She worked as a teacher at different schools in Zurich and in the Engadin, and worked abroad in Latin America, Paris, Berlin, and New York. Her work has been awarded with many prizes, including the literary prize of the Canton Graubünden and the prize of the Schillerstiftung Switzerland in 2011. Tamangur, her first novel, has been awarded this year with the Schweizer Literaturpreis 2016.
Tess Lewis’s translations from French and German include works by Peter Handke, Alois Hotschnig, Melinda Nadj Abonji, Philippe Jaccottet, and the painter Anselm Kiefer. Her recent awards include a Max Geilinger Award, the Austrian Cultural Forum NY Translation Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She also serves as an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review and writes essays on European Literature for a number of journals and newspapers including The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, World Literature Today, The American Scholar, and Bookforum.
Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. As space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event to ensure you get a good seat. Thank you!
An Evening with Leta Semadeni and Tess Lewis is made possible with the generous support of Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
Leta Semadeni was born in 1944 in Scuol in Switzerland, and studied Languages at the University of Zurich. She worked as a teacher at different schools in Zurich and in the Engadin, and worked abroad in Latin America, Paris, Berlin, and New York. Her work has been awarded with many prizes, including the literary prize of the Canton Graubünden and the prize of the Schillerstiftung Switzerland in 2011. Tamangur, her first novel, has been awarded this year with the Schweizer Literaturpreis 2016.
Tess Lewis’s translations from French and German include works by Peter Handke, Alois Hotschnig, Melinda Nadj Abonji, Philippe Jaccottet, and the painter Anselm Kiefer. Her recent awards include a Max Geilinger Award, the Austrian Cultural Forum NY Translation Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She also serves as an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review and writes essays on European Literature for a number of journals and newspapers including The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, World Literature Today, The American Scholar, and Bookforum.
Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. As space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event to ensure you get a good seat. Thank you!
An Evening with Leta Semadeni and Tess Lewis is made possible with the generous support of Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.